Stage 2: Design Concept Submission

A Competition mandatory briefing and site visit will be required of the three (3) Stage 2 Teams. The briefing will include a series of conversations with the public, the City Staff, and elected officials. The environmental permitting agencies will also have representatives at the briefing.

In addition to discussions on the competition procedures and requirements, the agenda will include presentations on the history of the Pier, budget constraints and the programmatic opportunities. The required format for estimates of probable construction cost, the detailed environmental permitting analysis, detailed planning documents and existing geotechnical and structural reports will be provided to each of the Teams.

Question and Answer Period. Written questions can be submitted on any aspect of the competition by established deadline. Copies of all questions and answers will be posted to the competition website.

Mandatory Qualification Package contents:

The following will be required, at a minimum, as deliverables for the Competition submittal stage:

The proposed project program and its justification; the planning/design parameters and basis of design; the description of the planning/design major concepts.

Overall diagrammatic site plan(s) indicating development concepts from Bay Shore Drive Northeast to the Pier Head.

Emotive colored drawings necessary to describe the place making design attitude of the project.

Narratives describing the major elements of the project, including proposed major materials, infrastructure systems, construction systems.

Phasing diagrams.

Estimated schedule.

Projected construction costs for the proposed project in prescribed detail. [NOTE: The total estimated cost of that portion of the project over water referenced in Physical Area Limitations ( on the other resources page) shall not exceed $45 million, including all hard and soft cost]

Digital renderings, simulated fly-over computer generated models depicting the experience of moving through the project and the views back toward the city. Physical models at the discretion of the Team.

At a minimum, Teams will be asked to submit the above information in the following manner:

Two sets of a maximum of eight (8) 36" x 48" horizontally orientated boards illustrating the concept, including the plans, elevations, sections, perspectives and diagrams necessary to explain the process.

Eight (8) printed copies of a document in 8.5" x 11" format that contains a written narrative describing the design concept and a printed copy of each board scaled to 11" x 17" format.

Eight (8) copies of CD's or DVD's containing all of the design concepts and written narratives in either digital or PDF format at a scale and size appropriate for both web posting and printing.

Initial Jury review and Presentation of Design Concepts: The Jury will receive the design concept submittal packages and following a two-week individual review by each Juror, the Teams will be invited to make a presentation of their submittals in a public meeting where the Jury will have the opportunity to ask clarification questions to the three (3) short listed Teams. The lead designers and project managers are required to attend.

City Technical Review: An independent third party will conduct cost and feasibility reviews of all design concept submittals. This will include technical review of concepts, budget, environmental assumptions, etc. Clarification questions may be submitted to Teams by the City. Objective technical overview for each Team will be provided to the Jury to assist Jury in understanding issues and evaluation of design concepts.

Public Exhibit of Design concepts: All design concept submittals will be on public display with the ability for the public to provide comments.

Final Jury review: Jurors independently review the results of Team presentations, technical review and public input. All information is complete.

Final Jury deliberation at Public Meeting: At a public meeting the Jury will evaluate and rank the design concepts. The Jury will present its final ranking to the St. Petersburg City Council. Council will approve the ranking as submitted by the Jury and authorize negotiations with the top ranked team.